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Riding the technology wave, which of THESE devices have you owned? (Intended target around age 40 and up) (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by acrobaticpenguin23 to c/technology

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Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.

Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .

Have you ever owned a My (answers)

-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe

-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn't last long... 😖

-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. 🙂

-3D Television? No

-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.

-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a Palm IIIe, and a couple Handspring Treos including the thin all aluminum one and a Compaq PDA that took full sized PCMCIA cards where i connected an Orinoco Silver Ethernet card. Also got a Nokia linux PDA, can't remember the model, and sadly it was too slow.

DVD recorder i got off of Woot back when they were a good service. CD player that was the size of a VHS. A VHS player while my best friend had BetaMax. Oh and one of those Toshiba rear projection big screen TVs.

No webtv or 3d.

Tons of Pis

AnonRadio on sdf.org. i have old time radio playing at home over Ice cast and mpd which also connected to VPN so i can stream stuff from anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also got a Nokia linux PDA

I had the Nokia N810. Still one of the most satisfying bits of industrial design I've ever seen on a piece of Tech, but yeah, it was a bit of a slowpoke for the things I wanted it to do, and smartphones pretty quickly got good enough that I couldn't justify keeping it around for anything mobile.